Alcohol has other effects on the body as well. It can stimulate hunger and can impede your metabolism (i.e. metabolizing alcohol vs. metabolizing other things).
Regardless, many alcoholic beverages are around 100 calories a pop, if not more.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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